Vote for me to go back to Catholic 1950's Ireland.... (No TARDIS involved)

Cabaal · 19-05-2014 03:27PM #1

Spotted this on thejournal.ie yesterday.

Catholic Democrat MEP candidate Theresa Heaney wants women back in the home...and basically under the thumb again, she also doesn't like gay people (no shock)

http://www.thejournal.ie/theresa-heaney-ireland-south-1464900-May2014/

Theresa Heaney believes this has fallen by the wayside in recent years, with the government forcing mothers out of the home, prompting her to throw her hat in the ring for the European elections with the Catholic Democrat party (formerly the National Party, before being renamed the Christian Democrats).

“There will be no same-sex referendum going through in Ireland, I guarantee it, because our faith and the family is too strong to actually interfere with family life in that area,” she said.

Marriage is about one man, one woman, a lifetime commitment. In The Story, there’s no such thing as marriage between people of same-sex attraction, it’s like calling an orange an apple – it doesn’t match up.

Heaney is far from a Europhile, describing it as a “dictatorial body that writes out streams of directives”, and isn’t a fan of those in Leinster House either.

But she's ok with the Vatican and their directives?

Atleast with Europe and the Irish government we vote for the people, we have a say.

There’s a report going to be released in Europe that actually confirms that all of our waterways are highly polluted with petrochemicals and oestrogen, directly from, guess what? The contraceptive pill… If you go off God’s plan, you end up with problems.

We're all doomed, run for the hills!

Heaney has run in three previous elections, although only attracted a small minority of voters, but this is the first European election she has contested.

Luckily we have nothing to worry about, only the fringe groupies will vote for this time traveler

robindch · 19-05-2014 03:30PM

Cracking first comment though:

Pharmyco wrote:

[...] I hope the electorate give her the opportunity to spend the next term of the European Parliament concentrating on her duties in the home.

GerB40 · 19-05-2014 03:35PM

Luckily this fúckin dinosaur is in the minority.. With the negative attention she's bound to receive, future politicians who share her archaic opinions might be dissuaded from being so open about them.

porsche959 · 19-05-2014 03:39PM

GerB40 wrote: »

Luckily this fúckin dinosaur is in the minority.. With the negative attention she's bound to receive, future politicians who share her archaic opinions might be dissuaded from being so open about them.

So people with unpopular opinions should shut up. Is that not just another forum of repression?

Mr. CooL ICE · 19-05-2014 03:46PM

Stories like this are usually followed by "only in 'murica" or "only in Saudi Arabia". Embarrassing stuff.

Cabaal · 19-05-2014 03:48PM

porsche959 wrote: »

So people with unpopular opinions should shut up. Is that not just another forum of repression?

Not really just simply "unpopular views", they are bigoted backwards views,

There's a limit to how much of a soap box such people should be given, take America as an example...

Sure you have free speech but that doesn't mean its ok to start saying that blacks are inferior to whites and mixed race marriages should be banned.

Views such as those held by this women belong in 1950's Ireland, they are the type of views that we'll be so so ashamed of. In 5- 10 years from now as a society as a whole we will shake our heads in shame at such people. (many of us are ashamed of these people now!).

No different to the racist words and views directed towards black people in 1950's America.

hfallada · 19-05-2014 03:50PM

I dont know where thejournal gets half of the nut jobs they are profiling. Most of them are total hypocrites and dont have any policies, but just a bit of a rant

iguana · 19-05-2014 03:52PM

Thread title made me think the OP was in a competition where whoever gets the most votes gets a ride in a TARDIS.

Maximus Alexander · 19-05-2014 03:54PM

porsche959 wrote: »

So people with unpopular opinions should shut up. Is that not just another forum of repression?

Yeah they should shut up, because nobody wants to listen to them and they are just embarrassing themselves. That's a very different thing to saying they have to shut up, which appears to be what you've inferred.

eviltwin · 19-05-2014 03:54PM

Women like this always baffle me. Surely she is aware and appreciative of the women's movement over the past 100 years or so. She has benefited from that and yet she wants to actively work to undo some of that progress.

PopePalpatine · 19-05-2014 03:57PM

When a party was formerly known as the "National Party", you'd wonder if they decided to leave out "Socialist" from the middle. :pac:

Cabaal · 19-05-2014 04:03PM

Some of these names are getting awful bloody similar,

So she was part of the National Party, but we also have a party called National Independence Party - http://www.nationalindependentparty.ie NIP appears to be the Irish version of UKIP....Irish jobs for Irish people and they want out of the Euro etc.

Cabaal · 19-05-2014 04:09PM

Oh look,
found one of her leaflets

theaney.jpg?w=1024&h=629

robindch · 19-05-2014 04:20PM

Ah, an anti-vaxxer as well.

Says all you need to know about this excellent lady.

tipptom · 19-05-2014 04:24PM

Cabaal wrote: »

Oh look,
found one of her leaflets

Far be it for me to be standing up for the God squad but I don't see anything on her leaflet about her wanting to put all women back to working in the family home and she actually makes some good points in standing up for grandparents who may be given a hard time from the goverment because they may look after children for their daughters who go out to work.

Cabaal · 19-05-2014 04:35PM

tipptom wrote: »

Far be it for me to be standing up for the God squad but I don't see anything on her leaflet about her wanting to put all women back to working in the family home and she actually makes some good points in standing up for grandparents who may be given a hard time from the goverment because they may look after children for their daughters who go out to work.

But behind all that we have stuff like this

“So, now we know”, Theresa said, “that the Catholic Church was right all along. The contraceptive Pill is a toxic drug and a serious health hazard, not only to our women and girls, but to our environment. It’s time to expose this abuse of our environment and our women and girls”, she said, “and if elected to Europe I will do just that”.

Theresa Heaney, has described the so-called "cervical cancer" mass vaccination scheme as a HOAX and a serious risk to the lives and health of our girls and women, and she has called on the HSE and Health Minister to withdraw the vaccine immediately.

She goes against the vast majority of the scientific community and has decided that human's are in no way affecting our planets climate. Its all just god's plan.
:rolleyes:

There is no climate cooling, there is no climate warming. There is climate change, as there always has been, and it will no doubt, change again and again as life goes on. That’s what weather does! And there is nothing any of us can do to control it. That’s God’s job.

PopePalpatine · 19-05-2014 04:40PM

"sanevax.org" doesn't seem that sane to me.

oscarBravo · 19-05-2014 04:44PM

tipptom wrote: »

...she actually makes some good points in standing up for grandparents who may be given a hard time from the goverment because they may look after children for their daughters who go out to work.

Nobody's being given a hard time. We're talking about grandparents who get paid for minding their grandchildren having to file tax returns.

robindch · 19-05-2014 05:12PM

oscarBravo wrote: »

We're talking about grandparents who get paid for minding their grandchildren having to file tax returns.

You mean people who earn money will have to pay taxes at the same rate as the rest of us do?

Shocked, I am. Simply shocked!

tipptom · 19-05-2014 05:20PM

oscarBravo wrote: »

Nobody's being given a hard time. We're talking about grandparents who get paid for minding their grandchildren having to file tax returns.

So you agree with going out hunting these geriatric arch criminals down?

I know loads of people who have their parents look after their children and they get either no payment or so little it could only be counted as pocket money that wouldn't even cover their petrol money but glad to hear that the EU and this government is going to "stick it to the man" for once.

shruikan2553 · 19-05-2014 05:27PM

Why is climate change god's job but becoming a politician is ok? Surely it is Gods job to lead us through the bible.

Galvasean · 19-05-2014 05:45PM

GerB40 wrote: »

Luckily this fúckin dinosaur is in the minority.. With the negative attention she's bound to receive, future politicians who share her archaic opinions might be dissuaded from being so open about them.

On the contrary, I like the fact that they are open and loud about their wackjob opinions. At least it makes it easy for people to avoid them like the plague.
Take Ronan Mullen as an opposite side of the same coin; he has been actively hiding his old school Catholic opinions because he knows no one will vote for him and his archaic views if they know what he's really all about. To me, that is far more insidious.

shruikan2553 · 19-05-2014 05:46PM

Galvasean wrote: »

On the contrary, I like the fact that they are open and loud about their wackjob opinions. At least it makes it easy for people to avoid them like the plague.
Take Ronan Mullen as an opposite side of the same coin; he has been actively hiding his old school Catholic opinions because he knows no one will vote for him and his archaic views if they know what he's really all about. To me, that is far more insidious.

At least if they are loud we know who to avoid, being part of Catholic Democrats is also a hint.

keane2097 · 19-05-2014 05:58PM

Humans can't do anything to change the effects they have on the environment, unless the changes are caused by the pill poisoning the rivers :rolleyes:

alan partridge aha · 19-05-2014 06:56PM

Fair play to her for standing I say.

Pherekydes · 19-05-2014 07:06PM

I wish these people would look up irony and hypocrisy in the dictionary.

And isn't catholic democrats such an oxymoron? They blindly follow the Vatican diktat and want to impose it on catholic and non-catholic alike.

The Black Oil · 19-05-2014 07:45PM

A who is query brings up Nora Bennis. Fun for all the family.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nora_Bennis

porsche959 · 19-05-2014 07:52PM

oscarBravo wrote: »

Nobody's being given a hard time. We're talking about grandparents who get paid for minding their grandchildren having to file tax returns.

robindch wrote: »

You mean people who earn money will have to pay taxes at the same rate as the rest of us do?

Shocked, I am. Simply shocked!

Prooof that whatever outrage Zanu FG/Zanu Labour come up with to screw the taxpayer, certain boards.ie moderators are happy to cheerlead it. I think if the government announced plans akin to Swift's satirical "A Modest Proposal" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal) some of you would line up to applaud it.

lynski · 19-05-2014 07:55PM

. Bennis is one of three substitutes for Catholic Democrats (The National Party) candidate Theresa Heaney in the South constituency in the 2014 European elections.[14]

Just in case the first nutjob was not enough

porsche959 · 19-05-2014 07:57PM

robindch wrote: »

Ah, an anti-vaxxer as well.

Says all you need to know about this excellent lady.

In that case she's a nut and unlikely to garner many votes. I still maintain shouting down controversial viewpoints not the best way.

The Black Oil · 19-05-2014 08:01PM

There's a difference between challenging and 'shouting down'.

Vote for me to go back to Catholic 1950's Ireland.... (No TARDIS involved)

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